Mississippi News
Medgar Evers receives posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom
Medgar Wiley Evers will be posthumously receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Evers, a World War II veteran and civil rights leader was assassinated on June 12, 1963, in the driveway of his home in Jackson. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest U.S. civilian honor awarded to individuals who have made ...
May 03, 2024
Judge grants autopsy rules requested by widow of Mississippi man found dead after vanishing
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi judge granted a request Thursday by the widow of a deceased man who vanished under mysterious circumstances to set standards for a future independent autopsy of her late husband's body. Hinds County Chancery Judge Dewayne Thomas formalized through a court order comments he made at a ...
May 03, 2024
Mississippi Medicaid expansion plan could struggle for bipartisan support, Democratic leader says
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Medicaid expansion plan endorsed by leaders in the Republican-led Mississippi Legislature could struggle for bipartisan support because it includes a work requirement that is unlikely to receive federal approval, the state House Democratic leader said Tuesday. Approving the plan could create fal...
May 02, 2024
Mobile sports betting will remain illegal in Mississippi after legislation dies
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mobile sports betting will remain illegal in Mississippi after legislative negotiators failed to advance a final proposal Monday. The House and Senate passed versions of the Mississippi Mobile Sports Wagering Act earlier in the state's legislative session. The bill would have allowed Mississippi t...
May 01, 2024
Bill dies for redistricting southwest Mississippi courts
NATCHEZ, Miss. - Legislative efforts have died to redraw Mississippi's judicial districts that would have altered the circuit and chancery courts for Adams County and its neighboring counties. The judicial redistricting bill died Monday when House-Senate negotiators couldn't agree on a final version to pass into law. E...
May 01, 2024
Conservative states challenge federal rule on treatment of transgender students
Several Republican state attorneys general are challenging a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation's schools by banning blanket policies that bar transgender students from school bathrooms aligning with their gender, among other provisions. The officials argue the new...
Apr 30, 2024
Mississippi lawmakers expected to vote on Medicaid expansion plan with work requirement
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi lawmakers are expected to vote this week on a proposal that would expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands more people, but it includes a work requirement that might not win federal approval. The state House and Senate passed separate expansion plans earlier this year. With the fo...
Apr 30, 2024
Mississippi Senate agrees to a new school funding formula, sending plan to the governor
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi would ditch a complex school funding formula that legislators have largely ignored since it became law a generation ago and replace it with a new plan that some lawmakers say is simpler to understand, under a bill headed to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves. A bill with the new formula passe...
Apr 29, 2024
Thompson presents funds for Forks to Freedom project
NATCHEZ — At a press conference Friday at Asbury United Methodist Church in Bolton, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson announced a number of community project fundings in Mississippi’s Second Congressional District. Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson and Ward 2 Alderman Billie Joe Frazier were at the conference to receive a $...
Apr 27, 2024
Mississippi lawmakers haggle over possible Medicaid expansion as their legislative session nears end
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Top Mississippi lawmakers started negotiating Tuesday on what could become a landmark plan to expand Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of people in one of the poorest states in the U.S. But even with Republicans controlling both the state House and Senate, it's far from clear that they will r...
Apr 24, 2024